34. The Protocols of Zion

Round Table

Eerily, Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, almost exactly nine months after the gruesome murders of by Jack the Ripper, which involved a network connected to the Golden Dawn and the founders of the Round Table, an organization that would be central in helping to bring about the Balfour Declaration of  1917. The Jack the Ripper murders served as inspiration to the novel Dracula, by Golden Dawn member Bram Stoker, whose consultant on Transylvanian culture was Herzl’s friend Arminius Vambery, an agent of the British Foreign Office working for Lord Palmerston. Dracula was inspired by the vampire novel Carmilla by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 – 1873), an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels inspired by Swedenborg. According to one occult historian, the model for le Fanu’s Carmilla was Barbara of Cilli, who assisted her husband Emperor Sigismund in founding the Order of the Dragon in 1408, and was a vampire who was taught by Abraham of Worms, student of Abramelin the Mage.[1] The Book of Abramelin had regained popularity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to the efforts of Golden Dawn founder MacGregor Mathers’ translation, and later within the mystical system of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema.

The activities of the Golden Dawn overlapped with Zionist aspirations, in league with the Round Table, a secret society founded by mining magnate Cecil Rhodes (1853 – 1902). While attending Oriel College, Rhodes became a Freemason in the Apollo University Lodge, a Masonic Lodge based at the University of Oxford, and also joined a Scottish Rite Lodge at Oxford, Prince Rose Croix Lodge No. 30.[2] Alexandra Adler (1901 – 2001)—daughter of the well-known psychologist Alfred Adler (1870 – 1937) who collaborated with Crowley—who worked as a neurology instructor at the Harvard Medical School, and wrote the foreword to the Encyclopedia of Aberrations, a reputable professional publication authored by a prestigious group of psychiatric experts, which includes an entry, “Devil Worship,” according to which:

 

In the twentieth century in England black magic is practiced and taught in secret schools both at Oxford and at Cambridge. The Black Mass is still celebrated in the drawing rooms of Mayfair and in Chelsea studios under conditions of almost absolute secrecy. There are at least seven active chapters of Satanists, each with an initiated membership of nearly fifty men and women, who meet at stated intervals and have their hidden chapels devoted to the worship of the demon.[3]

 

Rhodes attended John Ruskin’s inaugural lecture as Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University in February 1870, and was profoundly moved.[4] Ruskin declared:

 

There is a destiny now possible to us—the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. We are still undegenerate in race; a race mingled of the best northern blood. We are not yet dissolute in temper, but still have the firmness to govern, and the grace to obey… we are rich in an inheritance of honour, bequeathed to us through a thousand years of noble history…

And this is what she must either do, or perish: she must found colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men; — seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her foot on, and there teaching these her colonists that their chief virtue is to be fidelity to their country, and that their first aim is to be to advance the power of England by land and sea… a sacred Circe, true Daughter of the Sun, she must guide the human arts, and gather the divine knowledge, of distant nations, transformed from savageness to manhood, and redeemed from despairing into peace.[5]

 

Rhodes outlined his plan for the creation of a secret society, to be modelled on that of the Jesuits, in the first five of his seven wills. The purpose, as expressed in his first will in 1877, was:

 

The extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom and of colonization by British subjects of all lands wherein the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour, and enterprise,… the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of a British Empire, the consolidation of the whole Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial Representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire, and finally the foundation of so great a power as to hereafter render wars impossible and promote the best interests of humanity.[6]

 

In the third will, Rhodes named was Baron Nathan Rothschild (1840 – 1915), the head of the London branch of the family bank, N.M. Rothschild & Sons, as sole trustee. Nathan’s father was Baron Lionel de Rothschild, a friend of Benjamin Disraeli. Nathan’s brother Alfred de Rothschild was tutored by Wilhelm Pieper, Karl Marx’s private secretary.[7] The fourth will named William T. Stead (1849 – 1912)—a close friend of H.P. Blavatsky and Annie Besant. In 1891, Rhodes met with three other men to discuss his plans for the creation of a secret society to advance his goals. One was Reginald Baliol Brett, later known as Lord Esher, friend and confidant of Queen Victoria, and who would become the most influential adviser of kings Edward VII and George V. Shortly after the meeting, Stead added Alfred Milner to the society. Milner was Master Mason at Anglo-Colonial Lodge.[8] Rhode’s secret society was organized on Masonic lines, having two tiers: within the “Elect,” power resided with the leader, Rhodes, and a junta of three: Stead, Brett and Milner.[9] Rhodes expected Rothschild to handle the financial investments associated with the trust, while Stead was to have full charge of the methods by which the funds were employed. As Stead had explained to his wife in 1889:

 

Mr. Rhodes is my man! I have just had three hours talk with him. He is full of a far more gorgeous idea in connection with the paper than even I have had. I cannot tell you his scheme because it is too secret… His ideas are federation, expansion, and consolidation of the Empire… He took to me. Told me some things he has told no other man—save Lord Rothschild…[10]

 

W.T. Stead was also part of the circle of forgers involved in authoring the notorious Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, which purports to represent the plans of a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy for world domination. Markus Osterrieder, in “Synarchie und Weltherrschaft” (“Synarchy and World Domination”) therefore proposes that the Protocols represented the exposed plans of the Round Table. Also associated with the occult community of Juliette Adam and Papus was the Russian journalist and propagandist agent of Blavatsky’s publisher Mikhail Katkov, Olga Alekseevna Novikova, a close friend of Stead, who both became associated with Blavatsky. Stead was a famous British newspaper editor, regarded as a pioneer of investigative journalism. The April 1896 issue of Stead’s spiritualist journal Borderland published an article by Robert Donston Stephenson (1841 – 1916), presented as an author who “prefers to be known by his Hermetic name of Tautriadelta”—and who claimed to have been a student occultism under Edward Bulwer-Lytton—that Stead believed to be Jack the Ripper.[11] Stephenson lived in Whitechapel, the Jewish neighborhood where the gruesome murders took place, in the same lodging house where Theosophist Mabel Collins and her occultist friend Vittoria Cremers lived. Cremers was also a disciple of Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947), who both came to believe that Stephenson was Jack the Ripper.[12]

 

Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) 

This perplexing mix of connections with the Golden Dawn and the Jack the Ripper murders also extended to the members of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), founded in 1865, which laid the groundwork for the future Jewish settlement in Palestine, while also providing intelligence gathering.[13] In 1875, the Earl of Shaftesbury told the Annual General Meeting of the PEF, that “We have there a land teeming with fertility and rich in history, but almost without an inhabitant—a country without a people, and look! scattered over the world, a people without a country,” being one of the earliest usages by a prominent politician of the phrase “A land without a people for a people without a land,” which was to become widely used by Zionists as justification for the conquest of Palestine.[14] Along with individuals, a number of institutional members supported the PEF, including the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Antiquaries, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Grand Lodge of Freemasons.[15] According to Nur Masalha the popularity of the Survey led to a growth in Zionism amongst Jews.[16] An important member of the PEF was Field Marshal Lord Kitchener (1850 – 1916), a close friend of Nathan’s brother Alfred de Rothschild.[17] Kitchener was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1871, and in 1874 he was assigned by the PEF to a mapping-survey of the Holy Land. As Chief of Staff in the Second Boer War, Kitchener won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, and later played a central role in the early part of World War I.

Another important member of the PEF was Baron Lionel de Rothschild, who shared a friendship with Benjamin Disraeli and Prime Minister Gladstone with Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814 – 1906), the granddaughter of Henry Poole’s banker Thomas Coutts. She befriended Charles Dickens who together founded a home for “fallen” women known as Urania Cottage, recalling the name later adopted by the Isis-Urania Temple of Golden Dawn.[18] Together with Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James and Bram Stoker, she was a member of the Ghost Club, a paranormal investigation and research organization, founded in London in 1862, whose membership overlapped with that of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), founded in 1882, and which included Lord Balfour. Burdett-Coutts is hinted at in Stoker’s Dracula.[19] Bram’s older brother Thornley visited Naples to meet with Burdett-Coutt’s private physician, and accompanied her on at least one cruise on the Mediterranean.[20]

The PEF was linked to Quatuor Coronati (QC) Lodge, a Masonic Lodge in London dedicated to Masonic research, to the Golden Dawn and the murders of Jack the Ripper. Annie Besant’s brother-in-law, Sir Walter Besant (1836 – 1901), was an enthusiastic Freemason, becoming the third District Grand Master of the Eastern Archipelago in Singapore, one of the founding members of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge and was acting secretary of the PEF, between 1868 and 1887. In 1867, PEF’s biggest expedition was headed by General Sir Charles Warren (1840 – 1927)—the founding Master of the Quatuor Coronati—along with Captain Charles Wilson and a team of Royal Engineers, who discovered Templar tunnels beneath the ancient Temple of Jerusalem in 1867.[21] Warren named his find the “Masonic Hall.”[22]

Warren was also supportive of bringing Freemasonry to the Holy Land and PEF members were involved in the first Masonic ceremony in Palestine was held on May 7, 1873, within the cave known as Solomon’s Quarries.[23] The ceremony was held to consecrate the charter for the charter for the founding of the Royal Solomon Mother Lodge by Robert Morris, and Charles Netter founding member of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, and headmaster of Mikveh Israel, which was funded by Adolphe Crémieux and Baron de Hirsch.[24]

 

Hidden Conspiracy

From 1886 to 1888, Warren became the chief of the London Metropolitan Police during the Jack the Ripper murders. While most historians put the police’s failure to catch the Ripper down to incompetence, as recently as 2015, a book about the case by Bruce Robinson, titled They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper, criticized Warren as a “lousy cop” and suggested that a “huge establishment cover-up” and a Masonic conspiracy had been involved. Also involved in the cover-up was Juliette Adam, a close friend of William T. Stead. As noted by James Webb, “All authorities on the Protocols have united in the opinion that the forgery emanated from the circle of Juliette Adam and the Nouvelle Revue.”[25] In 1884, according to Victor Marsden, who produced the first English translation, Adam’s very close friend, a woman named Yuliana Glinka, a disciple of H.P. Blavatsky, hired Joseph Schorst-Shapiro, a member of Joly’s Misraim Lodge, to obtain sensitive information, and purchased from him a copy of the Protocols, and subsequently gave them to a friend who passed them on to Sergei Nilus, a pious extremist of the Russian Orthodox Church, who published them in 1905.[26]

The Protocols were reportedly the product of a secret meeting of leaders at the First Zionist Congress, convened by Herzl in Basel on August 29–31, 1897. Herzl recognized that it would not be possible to convince Jews to move to Palestine, except to compel them. As further revealed by a documentary in Hebrew titled, Herzl and Zionism, Herzl wrote in his diary of adopting a dastardly plan of exploiting anti-Semitism by fueling fears that the Jews secretly controlled the world, in order to help create circumstances so inhospitable in Europe that most Jews would see no alternative but to buckle to the will of the Zionists. As Herzl recorded in his diaries a portrayal of Jewish influence as put forth in the Protocols:

 

It would be an excellent idea to call in respectable, accredited anti-Semites as liquidators of property. To the people they would vouch for the fact that we do not wish to bring about the impoverishment of the countries that we leave. At first they must not be given large fees for this; otherwise we shall spoil our instruments and make them despicable as ‘stooges of the Jews.’ Later their fees will increase, and in the end we shall have only Gentile officials in the countries from which we have emigrated. The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.[27]

 

The Protocols of Zion emerged at a time of a flurry of anti-Masonic activity, as represented by Lucifer Unmasked (1895), a collaborative work by the notorious Leo Taxil and Jules Doinel (1842 – 1902), who was initiated Master Mason in 1885 with “congratulations and encouragement” from Albert Pike.[28] In 1890, Doinel founded l'Église Catholique Gnostique (Gnostic Catholic Church), the official church of the Martinist Order. Doinel began attempting to contact Cathar and Gnostic spirits during seances in the salon of Lady Caithness, Duchesse de Medina Pomar. Lady Caithness was approached around 1882 by Blavatsky, Colonel Olcott, and Annie Besant, to establish the French branch of the Theosophic Society.

Glinka was also an agent of Piotr Rachkovsky (1853 – 1910), Paris head of the Okhrana, the Russian secret service.[29] It was purported forgers in Rachkovsky’s circle who were said to have made use of an earlier version of the Protocols discovered by Papus.[30] In establishing the Ordre kabbalistique de la Rose+Croix (OKR+C), Papus, Oswald Wirth and Stanislas De Guaita dreamed of uniting occultists into a revived Rosicrucian brotherhood, as an international occult order, in which they hoped the Russian Empire would play a leading role as the bridge between East and West.[31] Papus served Tsar Nicholas II (1868 – 1918) and his wife Tsarina Alexandra both as physician and occult consultant. Through Papus, the imperial family became acquainted with his friend and spiritual mentor, the mystic Nizier Anthelme Philippe (1849 – 1905), known as Maître Philippe. While Rasputin is more popularly known as the occultist who attended to the royal couple, before him, Maître Philipe exercised an important influence on them as well. He was believed to possess remarkable healing powers, as well as the ability to control lightning, and to travel invisibly. In St. Petersburg in 1905, it was rumored that, in the presence of the Tsar and his wife, Papus evoked the spirit of the Tsar’s father, Alexander III, who offered advice on how to handle a political crisis.[32]

A story printed in 1920, in the “Organ of the Democratic Idea,” asserted that Papus compiled a report for the Russian Tzar Nicholas II—part of which included the Protocols of the sittings of the secret Masonic Lodges—which detailed a conspiracy against the Tsar on the part of Maître Philippe. This story goes on to say that Rachkovsky “spiced up this sensational report so as to guarantee the desired effect.” Papus and Rachkovsky were also apparently assisted in this endeavor by Adjutant General P.P. Gesse, and the Dowager Empress, Marija Federovna, as spouse of Emperor Alexander III.[33] Many authors maintain that it was Matvei Golovinski, the agent of Rachkovsky, who in Paris in the early 1900s authored the first edition of the Protocols.[34]

According to Princess Catherine Radziwill, the original forgery was part of an endeavor to convince Tsar Alexander III that the assassination of his father was part of a Jewish conspiracy. Born Catherine Rzewuska, she was the niece of Ewelina Hańska, the famous wife of Honoré de Balzac and a disciple of Éliphas Lévi and a relative of Saint-Yves d’Alveydre’s wife, the Comtesse de Keller. Ewelina was the sister of the writer Henryk Rzewuski and Russian spy Karolina Rzewuska, who was a friend of Alexander Pushkin and mistress of the Frankist poet Adam Mickiewicz.[35] Lady Caithness’ Theosophical Society of the East and West included the widowed Comtesse de Mnizech, Balzac’s stepdaughter, whose husband had been Éliphas Lévi’s heir.[36]

In 1896, Stead arranged for Catherine Radziwill to meet with Cecil Rhodes. Radziwill left her husband in 1899 for an adventurous life which led her successively to England, then to South Africa, where she asked Rhodes to marry her. They initially became friends, but Rhodes, who some historians have suggested was homosexual, turned her down.[37] But in Alfred Milner’s eyes, Catherine was “the most repulsive animal imaginable” and warned in capital letters, “She is Dangerous!” On another occasion, he remarked: “Strange how sex enters into these great matters of State. It always has. It always will. It is never recorded, therefore history will never be intelligible...” Milner also accused Radziwill of sowing discord between him and Rhodes, “by telling either party lies as to what the other had said about him.” She was a schemer in the service of hostile powers. As Markus Osterrieder remarked:

 

Whether Catherine Radziwill, who eventually stole confidential papers and forged Rhodes’s signature on checks and bills of exchange in Cape Town, really passed on information to Paris before her imprisonment in November, which was then incorporated into Papus’ “Niet” pamphlet, or whether Papus had learned details of Rhodes’ far-flung plans through Stead, remains unclear.[38]

 

In October 1901, Papus collaborated with an anti-Semitic journalist Jean Carrère in producing a series of articles in the Echo de Paris under the pseudonym Niet (“no” in Russian). They described a “hidden conspiracy” which had been responsible for the French Revolution and again the Unification of Italy, concluding that, “Now, today, supremacy is ensured by the possession of gold. It is the financial syndicates who hold at this moment the secret threads of European politics.”[39] Papus’ articles insinuated that behind the cabal there was a secret Anglo-German, but by reference to the House of Rothschild implicitly primarily “Jewish” conspiracy in Russia, in the form of an all-powerful financial cartel: “A few years ago, therefore, a financial syndicate was founded in Europe, which is now all-powerful, whose supreme aim is to monopolize all the markets of the world, and which, in order to facilitate its means of action, must fatally conquer political influence. [...] the center is in London, and ... the most important branches are in Vienna and Germany.” The most recent act of this cartel, he said, was the monopolization of gold mines with the help of the war in Transvaal. As noted by Markus Osterrieder, the naming of the Transvaal, annexed by the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War, makes it clear whom Papus had in mind as organizers of the “cartel”: the prime minister of the Cape Colony, Cecil Rhodes, his friend, the governor of the Cape Colony, Alfred Milner, and the banking complex of the Jewish Rothschild family associated with them, and their co-conspirator, Blavatsky’s cousin, Sergei Witte (1849  – 1915), who was sponsored by Rachkovsky.[40]

 

White Tsar of Shambhala

Sergei Witte recalled in his memoirs conversations he had in Paris in 1903 with Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827 – 1905), the son of James Mayer de Rothschild, who observed: “great events, especially of an internal nature, were everywhere preceded by the prevalence of a bizarre mysticism at the court of the ruler.”[41] What the Baron Rothschild was referring to was a hub of activity in St. Petersburg, consisting of theosophists and synarchists headed by Papus, who envisioned Nicholas II, the last monarch in Russia, as the “White Tsar of Shambhala.” St. Petersburg in 1905, according to Colin Wilson, author of The Occult, “was probably the mystical centre of the world.”[42] As reported by Richard B. Spence in Secret Agent 666, in the summer of 1897, Aleister Crowley had traveled to St. Petersburg in Russia, aiming to gain an appointment to the court of Tsar Nicholas II. Spence suggested that Crowley had done so under the employ of the British secret service.

By 1903, both Round Tabler Lord Curzon, the head of the British India government, and Francis Younghusband (1863 – 1942), became convinced that Russia and Tibet had signed secret treaties threatening the British interests in India and suspected that Lama Dorjieff (1853 – 1938), who knew and tutored the 13th Dalai Lama, was working for the Russian government.[43] Dorjieff is also remembered for building the Buddhist temple of St. Petersburg, where interest in Buddhism was flourishing due to widespread interest in Theosophy. By the 1890s, Dorjieff had begun to spread the story that Russia was the mythical land of Shambhala to the north, raising hopes that the Tsar would support Tibet and its religion. Dorjieff equated Russia with the coming Kingdom of Shambhala anticipated in the Kalachakra texts of Tibetan Buddhism. Dorjieff’s meeting with Nicholas II was arranged by the Tsar’s close confidant, Theosophist Prince Esper Ukhtomskii (1861 – 1921), a confidant of Tsar Nicholas II and a close ally of Sergei Witte.[44] Ukhtomskii accompanied Nicholas II on his Grand tour to the East, and made contact with Blavatsky at Adyar and promised to use his influence to push forward their projects.[45] Blavatsky had wanted to unite Central Asia, India, Mongolia, Tibet and China, with the involvement of Russia, in order to create a grand Eurasian power able to oppose the British.[46] Hinting at the nature of the Russian ambitions he represented, Ukhtomskii wrote, “in our organic connection with all these lands lies the pledge of our future, in which Asiatic Russia will mean simply all Asia.”[47] As he explained:

 

The bonds that unite our part of Europe with Iran and Turan [Central Asia], and through them with India and the Celestial Empire [China], are so ancient and lasting that, as yet, we ourselves, as a nation and a state, do not fully comprehend their full meaning and the duties they entail on us, both in our home and foreign policy.[48]

 

Ukhtomskii was a friend of the Mongol Dr. Piotr Badmaev (ca. 1850 – 1920), described by a Russian historian as “one of the most mysteries personalities of the day,” and a “master of intrigue,” who enjoyed a close association with the mystic healer Rasputin.[49] Known as “the Tibetan,” Badmaev dreamed of the unification of Russia with Mongolia and Tibet, and involved himself in several projects aimed at creating of a great Eurasian empire. Badmaev outlined his vision in a 1893 report to his godfather Tsar Alexander III entitled “The Tasks of Russia in the Asiatic East.” Badmaev knew of the legend—popular in Mongolia, China and Tibet—about the prophesied “White Tsar” who would come from the North (from “Northern Shambhala”) and restore the now decadent traditions of true Buddhism.[50]

The fear of Russia drawing Tibet into the Great Game to control the routes across Asia was therefore a reason for the British invasion of Tibet during 1903-4. A military confrontation on March 31, 1904 became known as the Massacre of Chumik Shenko, when the ill-equipped Tibetans were “mowed down… the Tibetans in a few minutes with a terrific slaughter.”[51] In 1904 at Lhasa, the British forced the Tibetans to sign the Treaty of Lhasa, with the understanding that the Chinese government would not permit any other country to interfere with the administration of Tibet. Dorjieff, it is said, then fled to Mongolia with the Dalai Lama.

In Tibet at the time of the Younghusband expedition was the Greek–Armenian George Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949).[52] Gurdjieff claims to have travelled to many parts of the world, including Central Asia, Egypt and Rome. Gurdjieff claims to have made contact with a “Sarmoung Brotherhood,” located somewhere in the heart of Asia, from whom he learned sacred dances, much like those of the Whirling Dervishes. According to Johnson, Gurdjieff’s accounts suggest “…a possible channel for Isma’ili influences in the Fourth Way teachings.”[53] According to Gurdjieff’s leading disciple, John G. Bennett, who was head of British Military Intelligence in Constantinople, Gurdjieff’s teaching originated with a chain of Sufi masters who were the descendants and spiritual heirs of the ancient shamanism of the Altai Mountains, where Central Asia had been their heartland for forty thousand years or more.[54] In the account of Gurdjieff’s wanderings, Meetings with Remarkable Men, each chapter is named after a “remarkable man,” many of them members of a society of “Seekers after truth,” James Webb proposed, and K. Paul Johnson concurs, that the model for “Prince Lubovedsky,” whom Gurdjieff describes as a key member of the “Seekers of the Truth,” was Esper Ukhtomskii.[55]

According to Rom Landau, a “spiritual journalist” of the 1930s—and a former student of Hermann Keyserling, founder of the School of Wisdom—Lama Dorjieff was none other than George I. Gurdjieff, a charismatic hypnotist, carpet trader and spy, who worked as a Russian secret agent in Tibet during the early part of the twentieth century. However, James Webb, author of The Harmonious Circle: The Anatomy of a Myth, the first comprehensive book on Gurdjieff and his movement, suggests that Gurdjieff was an agent for the Russian government as Ushe Narzunoff, an associate of Dorjieff. Nevertheless, the legend that Gurdjieff and Dorjieff were the same person was widely believed among Gurdjieff’s disciples.[56]

Glinka subsequently gave the Protocols to a friend who passed them on to Nilus. Thus Nilus’ cohort George Butmi de Katzman claimed: “the aforementioned Protocols were taken from the acts of the Masonic Lodge of the Egyptian of ‘Misraim’ rite, into which above all the Jews enter.”[57] The Protocols were first mentioned in the Russian press in April 1902, by the Saint Petersburg newspaper, Novoye Vremya. The article, written by a famous conservative publicist Mikhail Menshikov, “reported how the lady of fashion (Yuliana) had invited him to her house to see the document of vast importance. Seated in an elegant apartment and speaking perfect French, the lady informed him that she was in direct contact with the world beyond the grave and proceeded to induct him into the mysteries of Theosophy… Finally, she initiated him into the mysteries of the Protocols.”[58]

One of the earliest members of any Intelligence Service to see the Protocols was Russian Transportation Commissioner Colonel A. Cherep Spiridovich (1867 – 1926), a member of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (SOSJ), part of the Russian Tradition of the Knights Hospitaller, which evolved from the Knights of Malta, founded by Paul I of Russia [59] Spiridovich was the former head of the Okhrana, and wrote a biography of Rasputin. The Grand Duke Alexander of Russia (1866-1933), brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas II directed the assassination of Rasputin in late 1916. The men directly involved in the murder of Rasputin were the Grand Duke’s sons, son-in-law, cousin and a member of British MI6.[60] As an intelligence operative, Cherep Spiridovich was handled by Baron Rosen (1847 – 1921). Rosen was chosen as new Russian ambassador to the United States in May 1905 and as deputy to Sergei Witte, cousin of H.P. Blavatsky and a close ally of the Theosophist conspirators around Nicholas II.[61] Cherep-Spiridovich given the mandate by the Russian Imperial family to investigate the matter fully and to spread the alarm about “the hidden hand” of international Zionism and its plan to gain global control through the elimination of the Christian Church. He was made a Count of the Catholic Church by Pope Pius X about 1907.[62] He was made a Count of the Catholic Church by Pope Pius X about 1907.[63]

According to one account, Papus promised the imperial family that the Romanov monarchy would be protected as long as he remained alive. When the news of his death reached Tsarina Alexandra in 1916, she sent a note to her husband, then commanding the Russian armies at the front in World War I, saying “Papus is dead, we are doomed!”[64] Cherep-Spiridovich and his patronesses Alexandra were convinced of the authenticity of the international conspiracy and in 1918 but was murdered along with her entire family by the Bolsheviks.[65] Alexandra used a left-handed swastika as a secret sign of recognition in her correspondence. In her diary, she noted the anniversary of a person’s death with the symbol. When her daughter Tatiana gave her mother Alexandra the diary, she embroidered a swastika on the cover. On settling in her room at the Ipatiev house, where the family was eventually executed, she inscribed a swastika on a window frame followed by the date, April 17, 1918, the fateful date, and another swastika on the wall over the wall over the bed.[66]

 


[1] Nicholas de Vere. The Dragon Legacy: The Secret History of an Ancient Bloodline (Book Tree, 2004) p. 22.

[2] Peter Gerard Myers. The Cosmopolitan Empire: One World But Whose? (Polarity Press, 2023).

[3] Alexandra Adler. “Devil worship.” In: E. Podolsky (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Aberrations (New York: Citadel Press, 1965), p. 186; cited in James Randall Noblitt & Pamela Perskin. Cult and Ritual Abuse (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2014).

[4] John Flint. Cecil Rhodes (Warner Books, 2009).

[5] John Ruskin. Lectures on art. 1894 (Charles E. Merrill, 1893).

[6] Carroll Quigley. The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden (New York: Books in Focus, 1961), p. 33.

[7] “The Knight of Noble Consciousness.” Volume 12 (New York, 1854), p. 479

[8] Myers. The Cosmopolitan Empire: One World But Whose?

[9] Ibid.

[10] Quigley. The Anglo-American Establishment, p. 37.

[11] Tautriadelta. “A Modern Magician: An Autobiography. By a Pupil of Lord Lytton.” Borderland 3, no. 2 (April 1896).

[12] Lawrence Sutin. Do What Thou Wilt: A life of Aleister Crowley (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), p. 228

[13] Kathleen Stewart Howe. Revealing the Holy Land: the photographic exploration of Palestine (University of California Press, 1997). p 37

[14] “Palestine Exploration Fund.” Quarterly Statement for 1875 (London, 1875). p. 116.

[15] Markus Kirchhoff. “Surveying the Land: Western Societies for the Exploration of Palestine, 1865-1920.” Benedikt Stuchtey (ed.). Science across the European Empires, 1800-1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 156.

[16] Nur Masalha. Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), p. 256b.

[17] “The Knight of Noble Consciousness.” MEWC, Volume 12 (New York, 1854), p. 479

[18] “Baroness Burdett-Coutts.” Henry Poole & Co. Retrieved from https://henrypoole.com/individual/baroness-burdett-coutts/

[19] Bernard Davies. “Inspirations, Imitations and In-Jokes in Stoker’s Dracula,” in Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow, ed. Elizabeth Miller (Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex: Desert Island Books, 1998), 131-137. Cited in Hans Corneel de Roos. “Bram Stoker’s Hidden World: A Sociogram of London’s Esoteric Circles.” www.vampvault.jimdofree.com

[20] Rickard Berghorn. “Dracula’s Swedish Cousin: A Great Literary Mystery,” in Bram Stoker & A-e. Owners of Darkness: The Unique Version of Dracula (Centipede Press 2022), p. 21.

[21] Ben-Dov. In the Shadow of the Temple, p. 347

[22] Rupert L. Chapman III. Tourists, Travellers and Hotels in 19th-Century Jerusalem: On Mark Twain and Charles Warren at the Mediterranean Hotel (Routledge, 2018).

[23] Ibid.

[24] Leon Zeldis. “Jewish and Arab Masons in the Holy Land: Where Ideas can Fashion Reality.” First Regular Meeting of Quatuor Coronati Lodge 112 Regular Grand Lodge of Italy (Rome, March 20, 2004). Retrieved from http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/zeldis12.html

[25] James Webb. The Occult Establishment (A Library Press Book, Open Court Pub. Co, LaSalle, Ill: 1976), p. 244.

[26] Marsden. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, p. 100.

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[28] Ladislaus Toth. “Gnostic Church.” Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism (Brill, 2006), p. 402.

[29] Webb. The Occult Establishment, p. 217.

[30] De Michelis. The Non-Existent Manuscript, p. 115.

[31] Sabeheddin. “The Secret of Eurasia.”

[32] Stephan A. Hoeller. “Esoteric Russia.” Gnosis Magazine, No.31, Spring 1994.

[33] Ibid., p. 116.

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[35] Neal Ascherson. Black Sea (1995), pp. 150-165.

[36] Massimo Introvigne. Satanism: A Social History (Brill, 2016), p. 130.

[37] Robert Aldrich & Garry Wotherspoon. Who’s who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II, Volume 1 (Psychology Press, 2001), pp. 370–371.

[38] Osterrieder. “Synarchie und Weltherrschaft,” p. 128.

[39] Webb. The Occult Establishment, p. 249.

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[41] 'Abraham Yarmolinsky, éd.. The Memoirs of Count Witte (Garden City, N.Y., 1921), pp. 198–99; cited in Robert D. Warth. “Before Rasputin: Piety and the Occult at the Court of Nicholas II.” The Historian, Vol. 47, No. 3 (May 1985), p. 323

[42] Cited in Mehmet Sabeheddin. “The Secret of Eurasia: The Key to Hidden History and World Events” New Dawn No. 68 (September-October 2001).

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[44] Osterrieder. “From Synarchy to Shambhala,” p. 110.

[45] Johnson. Initiates of Theosophical Masters, p. 133.

[46] Sabeheddin. “The Secret of Eurasia.”

[47] Ukhtomskii. Travels in the East of Nicholas II Emperor of Russia when Czarewitch 1890-91. Translated by Robert Goodlet, edited by James Birdwood (Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1896), p. 60.

[48] Ibid.

[49] Sabeheddin. “The Secret of Eurasia.”

[50] Osterrieder. “From Synarchy to Shambhala,” p. 112.

[51] Allen Charles. Duel in the Snows: The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa (J.Murray) pp. 111-120.

[52] “Gurdjieff, George Ivanovich.” Theosophy World. Retrieved from https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/gurdjieff-george-ivanovich

[53] Johnson. Initiates of Theosophical Masters, p. 155.

[54] J.G. Bennett. Gurdjieff: Making a New World (London: Turnstone Books, 1973) p. 9.

[55] Johnson. Initiates of Theosophical Masters, p. 141.

[56] Paul Beekman Taylor. Gurdjieff’s America: Mediating the Miraculous. (Lighthouse Editions Limited, 2004) p. 146.

[57] Cesare G. De Michelis. The Non-Existent Manuscript: A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), p. 118

[58] “1884: One Hot Number,” Joseph Trainor, ed. UFO Roundup. Volume 8. Number 40. (October 22, 2003).

[59] Schuchard. Why Mrs. Blake Cried.

[60] “Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem.” Knights of Saint John.

[61] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Three, Chapter One: Synarchy.

[62] “Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem.” Knights of Saint John.

[63] “Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem.” Knights of Saint John

[64] Stephan A. Hoeller. “Esoteric Russia.” Gnosis Magazine, No.31, Spring 1994.

[65] “Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem.” Knights of Saint John

[66] The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra (Yale University Press, 1997), p. 15.

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